Knitted fabric and method of making the same.



UNITE STATES PATENT MAX C. MILLER, OF CUMBERLAND HILL, RHODE ISLAND,ASSIGNOR TO JENCKES KNITTING MACHINE COMPANY, OF PAWTUGKET, RHODEISLAND, A CORPORA- v TION OF RHODE ISLAND.

KNITTED FABRIC AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 7, 191.9.

Application filed July 12, 1917. Serial No. 180,207.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX C. MILLER, a subj ect of the Emperor of Germany,residing. at Cumberland Hill, in the county of Cumberland and State ofRhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inKnitted Fabrics and Methods of Making the Same; and I do hereby declarethe, following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to plain knitted fabrics, and its object is toprovide a nonraveling selvage at the initial edge of the fabric whichmay be readily and conveniently formed, and which is well adapted to bekniton circular knitting machines such as are used in the manufacture ofseamless stockings. I

To this end the invention consists in the knitted fabric and method ofmaking the same hereinafter described and set forth in the claims, theadvantages of which will be readily understood by those skilled in theart from an inspection of the accompanying drawing and the followingdetailed description of the method of knitting the fabric illustratedtherein.

In the drawing a fragment of a knitted fabric which illustrates theinvention diagrammatically is shown.

In starting the knitting operation an initial course of yarn indicatedat a is fed to the hooks or beards of all the needles, which operate toform a series of bights in the yarn indicated at 1, 2, 3 and 4 andcorresponding to the needle wales of the fabric which is to be knit. Informing the second course the yarn indicated at b is fed to alternateneedles only, which are operated to draw loops 6 through recurrentbights of the yarn a, as through bights 1 3, etc., the bights being castoff in the usual manner. While the alternate needles are knitting theloops or stitches of the second course of yarn the intermediate needlesstay down and hold the intermediate bights 2, 4, etc., so that thecasting off of the recurrent bights is insured. In forming the thirdcourse the yarn indicated at c is fed to all the needles, and all theneedles may be operated to draw loops, the needles which draw the loops75 however, being so operated that they do not cast off the loops indrawing the loops 0 formed in the yarn 0 and do not therefore formstitches or knit in this course. In other words, the needles drawing theloops 0 are operated to tuck, or fail to cast ofl" the loops b when theloops 0 are drawn. The fourth course is formed from the yarn indicatedat d which is fed to all the needles. the needles being operated to drawthe loops through the previously held loops which are cast off in theusual manner. In knitting the fourth course, therefore, the loops (2" inthe wales in which loops were drawn in forming the second course, aredrawn through loops in both the second and third courses, while theloops d formed in the intermediate wales are drawn through loops of thethird course only. The subsequent courses are knit in the usual mannerby feeding yarn to all the needlesand operating the needles to drawloops through the previously held. loops.

The above manner of forming the settingup and additional courses of theweb results ina strong and efficient selvage in which the yarn of theinitial course is so interlocked with the second and third courses thatraveling of the edge is prevented. This method of forming the setting-upand initial courses is also well adapted to be knit upon circularindependent needle machines without complication of parts, and is alsowell adapted for the knitting of a turn welt upon such machines.

Claims:

1. A selvage for knitted fabrics having an initial yarn engagingstitches of the second course in recurrent wales and the stitches of thethird course in the intermediate wales, the stitches of the fourthcourse engaging the yarn of both the second and third courses in therecurrent wales, and only the third course in the intermediate wales.

2. The method of knitting a selva e fabric which consists in formingbightso the initial yarn in all the wales, forming stitches of thesecond courseof yarn in recurrent wales only, forming stitches of thethird course in the intermediate wales, and tuck-- ing in the wales ofthe second course and thereafter forming stitches in all thewales insucceeding courses.

stitches of the third course in the inter- 15 mediate Wales only, thestitches of the' 3. The method of knittinga selvage fabric whichconsists in forming bights of initial yarn on each of a series ofneedles, drawing loops of the second course and casting oil? the initialbights on recurrent needles only, drawing loops of the third course onall the needles and casting off the initial bights on the intermediateneedles while retaining the loops of the second course on their needles,and'drawing loops of a subsequent course and casting off on all theneedles.

4. A selvage for knitted fabrics having an initial yarn engaging thestitches of the second course in recurrent wales only and the fourthcourse engaging the initial stitches of all the wales.

5. The method of knittinga selvage fabric which consists in formingbights of the initial yarn in all the wales, forming stitches of thesecond course of yarn in recurrent Wales only, forming stitches of thethird course of yarn in intermediate Wales only, and forming stitches ofthe succeeding courses in all the Wales.

MAX C. MILLER.

